The End of Atlanticism

摘要

Relations among the transatlantic allies are in very serious trouble. It has been a long time since a US Secretary of State spoke of the Alliance 'breaking up,' as Colin Powell did in early February amid the flap over France, Germany and Belgium's refusal to allow NATO to take preventive steps to defend Turkey in case of a war against Iraq. As close and long an observer of US-European relations as Henry Kissinger has even concluded that differences over Iraq have 'produced the gravest crisis in the Atlantic Alliance since its creation five decades ago.'